"An ujaj song by a chorus of five to seven women.
Usually, men and women sing together, but in this recording the men are absent. Heterophony with displacements in canon : the successive entries are separated and do not follow the same temporal displacement. The song is essentially constructed on two degrees, about a major third apart ;one of the voices occasionally departs for the upper fifth. The singers weave a continuity o sound with their voices, without silences, nor evident breaks.
The syllabic formula [a a au au a au] is characteristic of this type of repertoire.
The ujaj songs are performed during the dance of the tsantsa, ceremony of the shrunken heads. they are believed to create a magic halo for the protection of men departed on warrior expeditions."